Although it's not that common, if they really want someone they will pay.

Mike Stephenson, Dewsbury to Penrith circa 1972........

Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop

Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop

That's ok - I usually charge for this sort of stuff but since he's just starting out in SL, we'll consider this one pro-bono.

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Our 1st choice half back pairing was always holdsworth n chase so 1 down and 1 to go hopefully

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Our 1st choice half back pairing was always holdsworth n chase so 1 down and 1 to go hopefully

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Holdsworth was always going to be one of them. We still want Chase, but we do have a fall-back option if that one falls through

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Holdsworth was always going to be one of them. We still want Chase, but we do have a fall-back option if that one falls through

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Nope HTH.

Quote ="I_am_Spartacus"Looks like Hull have gone elsewhere for a halfback; www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... orth-swoop'" Nope HTH.

Head, nail, hit...

A fee was agreed with Castleford before the deadline, Cas agreed, Chase agreed and Hull agreed.

Now it seems that a visa will happen Castleford have changed the goal posts and now want more money, all AP is saying is that he wont be held to ransom.

So if the clubs don't now come to an agreement you have an unhappy player on your books and you don't get a big wad of cash coming your way.

Lose, lose all round.

Unlikely.

If Hull don't buy him someone else will, so only Hull lose, which is ok by me.

Or he goes to the NRL on a free.

ps

Who else has the cash to buy him only two teams I can think of Wigan and Warrington that pay transfer fees.

Wigan are already sorted for next season, so that leaves Warrington at a guess.

Looks like you got your wish and your keeping Chase, said on the radio tonight in sports talk that a deal is now very unlikely as its just got way too complicated.


Shame really good player, would have loved to see him at the club but alas not to be.

You say it like we don't have the right to keep our own player.

And you forgot to mention that he stated it had become too complicated and personal mainly down to the player himself.

A choice between losing Chase or keeping him. Keep him hands down. 2 proper centres now with the club, a young scrum half to partner, his cousin in the 2nd row, I think we'll have a happier 2011 Man of Steel in our team.

I had heard a few weeks ago that he didn't want to leave now due to us signing Weller.
Maybe this is why Cas are now stalling/asking for more money for Chase, I just hope that if he does stay his off field antics improve and he knuckles down and shows us what he can do on the field and starts to play like he has over the last two previous seasons.

By complicated you mean "possibly never made an official bid"?

Well not having any contact with your BOD I wouldnt know, but it was written in several newspapers just before the transfer deadline and also reported in our local rag that Hull had approached Castleford about buying Chase and that an agreement had been reached dependant on Chase getting a visa.

Surely if Hull had not spoken to Castleford at all and just spoke to the player himself then by now Castleford would have reported Hull to the RFL about an illegal approach as it was before september 1st.

This whole sorry saga has gone on long enough and I am sure everyone on both sides want it to reach an end so we can move on. Our coach said yesterday when asked that the deal is not dead yet but it would be coming to a conclusion soon so who knows what will happen.

Must be right if it was printed in the Hull Daily Mail.

Would make your BOD's statement just before the signing deadline somewhat puzzling wouldn't it?

Not to mention the amount of time and effort spent on his visa application.

Seems to be an attempted retcon going on at Cas.

Perhaps AP has been frightened off, the thought of being reported for tapping up two players in a month or so may have put him in his place?
Big time soccer Charlie!!!!

2 ?? do tell ......

Hull FC remind me of Leeds in the Eighties. They are throwing vast amounts of money about, trying to buy good players, but are still failing to win anything. I am not sure if Gentle is the man for the job and if Pearson thinks that he can buy success, he is mistaken.

Are we?

Feel free to give actual figures.

Just for the uninitiated then, assuming that the "complications" involved in the possible transfer of Chase to Hull, mean it doesn't happen, what happens to him then?

Rightly or wrongly the impression I have got from afar is that Cas have been recruiting on the basis that Chase (or at least the cost of Chase's contract) would not be at the Club in 2013.

His behaviour in all this cant have been good for club morale either I wouldn't have thought, unless that has all been reconciled.

Can you still keep him and stay financially viable or does he go elsewhere, even if not to Hull?

I think you may be jumping the gun a touch.

This is the 1st ever transfer window Pearson has had to really splash the cash so obviously we have not had chance to win anything yet but if your going to compare us with Leeds in the eighties surely you have to give us 10 years to do it.

Didn't Ian Millward say earlier this month something along the lines of "I've spoken to the board and said there's no way I want to be looking for a No 6 come October, They said plan on him (Rangi) being a Castleford player next year"?